Microsoft's Steve Ballmer rumored to present at Apple's WWDC 2010
Steve Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft, could play a part in rival Apple's keynote presentation at the annual Worldwide Developers Conference, according to a new rumor.
As reported by Barron's, analyst Trip Chowdhry with Global Equities research said that a total of 7 minutes of Steve Jobs' June 7 keynote have been reserved for a presentation from Microsoft. The Redmond, Wash., software giant will reportedly be showing off Visual Studio 2010, the company's suite of development tools.
Chowdhry reportedly believes that the presentation could be given by Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO and fierce rival. If not, a possible second option for the allegedly planned presentation would be Bob Muglia, head of Microsoft's server and tools business.
According to Chowdhry, the new version of Visual Studio will allow developers to write native applications for Apple's iPhone OS, which includes the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Developers will also allegedly be able to write software for the Mac OS X operating system with Visual Studio 2010.
An appearance by Ballmer would certainly be a surprise at WWDC -- an event that at least one analyst believes will be lacking in surprises due to a number of high-profile leaks that are believed to have shown off the hardware of Apple's next-generation iPhone.
As reported by Barron's, analyst Trip Chowdhry with Global Equities research said that a total of 7 minutes of Steve Jobs' June 7 keynote have been reserved for a presentation from Microsoft. The Redmond, Wash., software giant will reportedly be showing off Visual Studio 2010, the company's suite of development tools.
Chowdhry reportedly believes that the presentation could be given by Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO and fierce rival. If not, a possible second option for the allegedly planned presentation would be Bob Muglia, head of Microsoft's server and tools business.
According to Chowdhry, the new version of Visual Studio will allow developers to write native applications for Apple's iPhone OS, which includes the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Developers will also allegedly be able to write software for the Mac OS X operating system with Visual Studio 2010.
An appearance by Ballmer would certainly be a surprise at WWDC -- an event that at least one analyst believes will be lacking in surprises due to a number of high-profile leaks that are believed to have shown off the hardware of Apple's next-generation iPhone.
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Maybe Apple is buying some M$ stock to help them and he is showing up to say thanks
MSFT stock is remotely worth it only if I can reasonably speculate that they are going to split it up (i.e., take out the Windows and Office segments and spin them off as separate utilities.... er..... companies!).
Maybe Apple is buying some M$ stock to help them and he is showing up to say thanks
Now AAPL is valued higher than MS you have to write
"Maybe App£e is buying some MS stock to help them..."
What are they doing?
Maybe they're going to 'do' over Google together?
Or just maybe I had one or three many brews tonite
Cheers,
Phil
How is MS going to sell Visual Studio 2010 to Mac developers when Apple give them Xcode for free? People buy bottled water, so maybe there's hope.
According to Chowdhry, the new version of Visual Studio will allow developers to write native applications for Apple's iPhone OS, which includes the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Developers will also allegedly be able to write software for the Mac OS X operating system with Visual Studio 2010.
This would be a terribly short sighted deal for Apple. Apple should keep Microsoft as far away as possible. Only bad things happen when Microsoft gets close in, just look at Apples's history of close deals with Microsoft.
now aapl is valued higher than ms you have to write
"maybe app£e is buying some ms stock to help them..."
ok
I never used M$ as an insult to be honest just too lazy to type Microsoft and but app£e is no shorter - I should just use
Out with Google search. In with Bing?
That maybe the answer. Personally I far rather see SJ announce Apple's own iSearch.
There is one notable thing here though. The reference implementation (without the user interface stuff) of .net from Microsoft Research does compile on the Mac. They targeted the Mac to prove that it was cross platform capable like Java. It wasn't heavily optimized for the Mac though.
Get on that stage and dance for us monkey man.
This would be a terribly short sighted deal for Apple. Apple should keep Microsoft as far away as possible. Only bad things happen when Microsoft gets close in, just look at Apples's history of close deals with Microsoft.
I could not agree more! Hopefully this is just a rumor and not true.
Apple need a partner, and they need a big one.
Daniel.
Steve Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft, could play a part in rival Apple's keynote presentation at the annual Worldwide Developers Conference
Okay, so now I am going to make flavored popcorn to watch the WWDC Keynote, extra special treat.
"Monkey Dance, Monkey Dance!"
"We want the Monkey Dance!"
It will be a riot!
This doesn't make any sense. Apple just made the no 3rd party runtimes rule.
You sort of stole my thunder. I'm no Flash apologist, but didn't Apple just tell Adobe that their developers can't use Flash to create iPhone apps? And now you're going to let Microsquish developer in to the party? How can that be any better than Flash developers? Yes 50% of crashes come from Flash on a Mac, the other 50% come from M$...